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  • The Darker Side of Western Modernity

    Global Futures, Decolonial Options

    by Walter D. Mignolo ...
    Series series Latin america otherwise: languages, empires, nations
    During the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, coloniality emerged as a new structure of power as Europeans colonized the Americas and built on the ideas of Western civilization and modernity as the endpoints of historical time and Europe as the center of the world. Walter D. Mignolo argues that coloniality is the darker side of Western modernity, a complex matrix of power that has been created and ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • The Politics of Decolonial Investigations

    by Walter D. Mignolo ...
    Series series On Decoloniality
    In The Politics of Decolonial Investigations Walter D. Mignolo provides a sweeping examination of how coloniality has operated around the world in its myriad forms from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first. Decolonial border thinking allows Mignolo to outline how the combination of the self-fashioned narratives of Western civilization and the hegemony of Eurocentric thought served to ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Local Histories/Global Designs

    Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking

    by Walter D. Mignolo ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
    Local Histories/Global Designs is an extended argument about the "coloniality" of power by one of the most innovative Latin American and Latino scholars. In a shrinking world where sharp dichotomies, such as East/West and developing/developed, blur and shift, Walter Mignolo points to the inadequacy of current practices in the social sciences and area studies. He explores the crucial notion of ... Read more

    $45.09 CAD

  • On Decoloniality

    Concepts, Analytics, Praxis

    by Walter D. Mignolo, Catherine E. Walsh ...
    Series series On Decoloniality
    In On Decoloniality Walter D. Mignolo and Catherine E. Walsh explore the hidden forces of the colonial matrix of power, its origination, transformation, and current presence, while asking the crucial questions of decoloniality's how, what, why, with whom, and what for. Interweaving theory-praxis with local histories and perspectives of struggle, they illustrate the conceptual and analytic dynamism ... Read more

    $31.89 CAD

  • In the Name of El Pueblo

    Place, Community, and the Politics of History in Yucatán

    by Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull, Paul Eiss, PhD ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    The term “el pueblo” is used throughout Latin America, referring alternately to small towns, to community, or to “the people” as a political entity. In this vivid anthropological and historical analysis of Mexico’s Yucatán peninsula, Paul K. Eiss explores the multiple meanings of el pueblo and the power of the concept to unite the diverse claims made in its name. Eiss focuses on working-class ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador's Modern Indigenous Movements

    by Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull, Marc Becker, PhD ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    In June 1990, Indigenous peoples shocked Ecuadorian elites with a powerful uprising that paralyzed the country for a week. Militants insisted that the government address Indigenous demands for land ownership, education, and economic development. This uprising was a milestone in the history of Ecuador’s social justice movements, and it inspired popular organizing efforts across Latin America. While ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • After Spanish Rule

    Postcolonial Predicaments of the Americas

    by Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull, Shahid Amin ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    Insisting on the critical value of Latin American histories for recasting theories of postcolonialism, After Spanish Rule is the first collection of essays by Latin Americanist historians and anthropologists to engage postcolonial debates from the perspective of the Americas. These essays extend and revise the insights of postcolonial studies in diverse Latin American contexts, ranging from the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Time of Liberty

    Popular Political Culture in Oaxaca, 1750–1850

    by Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull, Peter Guardino, PhD ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    Between 1750 and 1850 Spanish American politics underwent a dramatic cultural shift as monarchist colonies gave way to independent states based at least nominally on popular sovereignty and republican citizenship. In The Time of Liberty, Peter Guardino explores the participation of subalterns in this grand transformation. He focuses on Mexico, comparing local politics in two parts of Oaxaca: the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking

    by Walter D. D. Mignolo ...
    This book is an extended argument on the "coloniality" of power by one of the most innovative scholars of Latin American studies. In a shrinking world where sharp dichotomies, such as East/West and developing/developed, blur and shift, Walter Mignolo points to the inadequacy of current practice in the social sciences and area studies. He introduces the crucial notion of "colonial difference" into ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Trading Roles

    Gender, Ethnicity, and the Urban Economy in Colonial Potosí

    by Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull, Jane E. Mangan ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    Located in the heart of the Andes, Potosí was arguably the most important urban center in the Western Hemisphere during the colonial era. It was internationally famous for its abundant silver mines and regionally infamous for its labor draft. Set in this context of opulence and oppression associated with the silver trade, Trading Roles emphasizes daily life in the city’s streets, markets, and ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Imperial Subjects

    Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America

    by Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    In colonial Latin America, social identity did not correlate neatly with fixed categories of race and ethnicity. As Imperial Subjects demonstrates, from the early years of Spanish and Portuguese rule, understandings of race and ethnicity were fluid. In this collection, historians offer nuanced interpretations of identity as they investigate how Iberian settlers, African slaves, Native Americans, ... Read more

    $31.89 CAD

  • Political Cultures in the Andes, 1750-1950

    by Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    A major contribution to debates about Latin American state formation, Political Cultures in the Andes brings together comparative historical studies focused on Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth. While highlighting patterns of political discourse and practice common to the entire region, these state-of-the-art histories show how national and ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD